Research Guides: Indigenous languages: Victoria

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Language resources for Victoria

Aboriginal languages of Victoria [catalogue record]
Use this book for information about Aboriginal languages in Victoria.
SERIES 05: George Augustus Robinson Aboriginal vocabularies, 1830-1866
Consult these vocabularies for Aboriginal languages from New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania.
Some Aboriginal languages of Queensland and Victoria [catalogue record]
Use this book for information about Aboriginal languages of Victoria.
The Warrnambool language: a consolidated account of the Aboriginal language of the Warrnambool area of the western district of Victoria based on nineteenth century sources [catalogue record]
Consult this book for information about the Warrnambool language taken from nineteenth century sources.
William Thomas papers, 1834-1868, 1902, MLMSS 214/23
Use these papers to find language from Aboriginal communities in Victoria, particularly in the Port Phillip District.
Letter from R. Forrester Payten to A. S. Le Souef relating to the Festival of the Bugong Moth, 15 June 1949
Read this letter to find words from the language of the Dhudhuroa community.
Issue of blankets to Aborigines, 1854-1858
Use this resource for language of Gunnai and Brabralung communities.
Item 02: 'Vocabulary of the language spoken by the Tribes inhabiting the country about the Rivers Crawford, Stokes and the lower parts of the Wannon and Glenelg', 184-?
Consult this vocabulary for words from the Dhauwurd Wurrung language.
John H. W. Pettit letters to his father in England, illustrated with sketches by the writer, 1852-1868
Read these letters if you are interested in the languages of the Ngarigu, Brabralung or Gunnai communities.
Also viewable on Rediscovering indigenous languages.
Journal for Merri Merri Creek 1 March to 31 May 1848, submitted by William Thomas to G. A. Robinson, 1848
Read this journal for language from Boonwurrung community.
Kamilaroi, and other Australian Languages, by Rev. William Ridley, 2nd ed. (Sydney, 1875)
Use this resource for words from the Djadjawurrung language.
Report from Native Police Encampment Yarra Yarra submitted by H. E. Pultney Dana to C. J. La Trobe, 1842
Consult this report if you are interested in the language of the Boonwurrung community.
Statistical return of the Aboriginal population in the Western Port District by William Thomas, 1839, forwarded by G. A. Robinson to C. J. La Trobe
Find language from the Boonwurrung community detailed in this report.
Volume 1: 'Australian Comparative Vocabulary' by Edward M. Curr, 1881
Consult this vocabulary to find out about the Ngarigu language.

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The word lists of Indigenous languages in these resources were compiled by non-Indigenous explorers, surveyors, first settlers, missionaries, anthropologists and linguists. There may be inaccuracies or errors in translation.